Quotes About Defiance

Poverty has a great appetite for eating one's dignity, but Elimane was one of those people who fought to keep his, even when that was the only battle he was winning.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

Down you mongrel, Death! Back into your kennel!

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

They were never defeated, they were only killed.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter! - all his force dares not cross the threshhold of the ruined tenement!

Anarchy is against the law.

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Good luck trying to cancel me.

I got kicked out of school... I caused a lot of turbulence throughout those years.

'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!'

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.